Guided Meditations
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Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self (14:29 min.)
Meditation: Calling on Your Future Self We have within us the wisdom and compassion that can carry us through the most challenging times. This meditation guides us in accessing...
Meditation: Saying “Yes” to Reality (19:04 min.)
Our suffering comes from tensing and resisting the life that’s here. This meditation guides us to relax and awaken our body and senses, and resting in presence, allow life to be...
Meditation: Relaxing with Life (22:51 min.)
This meditation includes a mindful body scan and guidance in relaxing with the changing waves of experience. When we say “Yes” to the moment, we open to the sea of awareness that...
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Meditation: Resting in a Sea of Presence (20:49 min.)
This mindful body scan leads us into a practice of relaxing back into awareness, and recognizing the changing waves of sensations, sounds and feelings in the foreground. As we...
Meditation: The Presence Beyond Thoughts (17:33 min.)
We spend many life moments in a trance of thinking. This meditation awakens the senses through a body scan, and attention to sound. We then rest in the presence that can come...
Meditation: Breath by Breath (22:37 min.)
Meditation: Breath by Breath - Our breath can be a home base that allows us to meet life with a relaxed, wakeful presence. This meditation helps us calm and settle the mind with...
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Meditation: Listening to Life (18:27 min)
Meditation: Listening to Life - The attitude of meditation is one of engaged listening - a relaxed, receptive yet intimate attention. This meditation explores how we can listen...
Meditation: Open Awareness – Relaxing Back into Presence (19:03 min)
Meditation: Open Awareness - Relaxing Back into Presence - This practice brings attention to the continuous space within and around the body, and the aliveness of sound,...
Meditation: Living Presence (19:55 min)
Meditation: Living Presence - The pathway to experiencing full aliveness and openheartedness is by awakening awareness throughout the body. This meditation begins by establishing...
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life (28:56 min.)
Meditation: Befriending and Opening to Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in...
Meditation: The Breath – Portal to Presence (15:32 min)
The meditation starts with breathing mindfully to collect and calm the body and mind. Then we open our attention to include the changing flow in a spacious natural presence.
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence (19:09 min.)
Meditation: Resting in Wakeful Presence - This meditation scans through the body - arriving in the foreground with sounds, feelings and sensations, like the surface waves of the...
Meditation: Cultivating a Gentle, Kind Attention (19:46 min.)
This meditation calls on the image and felt sense of a smile as we scan through the body, and invites a receptive and caring presence, as we open our attention to the changing...
Meditation: Letting Go (20:53 min.)
One way of understanding meditation is a letting go of the habitual clenching of thoughts, the clenching that resists emotions and pulls away from aliveness itself. This...
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life (16:07 min.)
Meditation: Befriending Your Inner Life - This meditation establishes a gentle and caring presence through bringing the image and felt sense of a smile to various domains in the...
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (19:49 min.)
Meditation: Relaxing Back into Open Wakefulness (19:49 min.) - This meditation begins by relaxing through the body, and connecting with inner aliveness and space. We then include...
Meditation: Realizing Your Aspiration (9:43 min.)
Meditation: Realizing Your Aspiration (9:43 min.) - Beyond any meditation technique, what energizes and guides our spiritual life is aspiration. This reflection can help deepen...
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.)
Meditation: Refuge of Living Presence (14:55 min.) - Our thoughts keep us removed from this living world. This guided practice invites us to open and relax with the moment to...
Méditation: Médecine de Coeur pour l’anxiété (12:23 min)
Méditation guidée: Médecine de Coeur pour l’anxiété (12:23 min) - Lorsque nous sommes en proie à l’anxiété, nous avons besoin d’un chemin pour retourner vers notre paix...
Meditation: Reconnecting to Silence and Presence (19:12 min.)
Only in silence and presence do we realign with what matters to our hearts. This simple practice of arriving in an embodied awareness supports us in touching the grounds of true...